Blu-ray retailer exclusives

Too often now retailers get blu-ray exclusives that, frankly, we don't hear about. You would think that retailers would make a bigger stink about stuff you can only buy at their store. Let's start keeping track of them here. In the last few years titles like Transformers 2 Imax, Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Harry Potter 7.1 & 2 3D, Stripes, Fright Night 1981 and others have been originally released as an exclusive somewhere.

Let's keep track of these exclusives so anyone interested can get them as soon as they would like and without searching everywhere.

i was going to add some of the Dreamwork 3D blus as bestbuy exclusives, such as how to train your dragon, megamind, the shreks, but it looks like now you can buy them through amazon, though on some of them it'll cost a lot more than buying at best buy

One source for the announcement:http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Disc_Announcements/20th_Century_Fox/The_Big_Trail_and_The_Barbarian_and_the_Geisha_Wal-mart_Exclusive_Blu-rays/8902

I have this one: The Big Trail (Two-Disc Special Edition)Despite being "only" DVD, it's very well done, with nice extras about that early wide screen movie type and the young John Wayne's career at that time. The early wide screen history in particular is interesting in that it deals with the economics of theater capability for wide screen and costs, and there's a parallel to our time with 3D movie house [and home] capability. ALSO, that most "views" of the movie were in a cropped 4:3 version that diluted the grandeur of the wild west scenics. It upscales nicely on my OPPO BDP-83SE, in 1080p/24. That technical presentation provides a nice, filmic look, IMO, which BD should nicely improve on with greater detail.

I'd recommend the special edition of "The Big Trail" for anyone who doesn't have this DVD special edition version, and I'll think about it myself. It's a very well done western. I wonder how long they'll be exclusive to WM, or conversely, when they'll become available on Amazon.

I think this is an excellent idea for a thread. I don't know your sources for this information that causes you to think it unnecessary, but most of what I've read on here has been news to me. Therefore, I find this a very useful topic. Clearly, from all the negatives your post is getting, I'm not alone in this.

That is exactly why I started this thread. I was even at Best Buy last night, and there was NO indication that there were new exclusive movies there. How do they expect people to find them if they do not promote them? This one was just released this week with ZERO fanfare.

Another strange point about Best Buy is that they also have certain titles that are "online purchase only" meaning that you cannot find them on the shelves at any BB locations.

They do not make it easy to determine which titles fall into this bucket and I showed up at BB a few weeks ago looking for a BD that the salesman had to lookup on their internal computer system before he could determine it was "online purchase only".

20th Century Fox Entertainment will release on Blu-ray three action films starring Chuck Norris: Joseph Zito's Missing in Action (1984), Lance Hool's Missing In Action 2: The Beginning (1985), and Menahem Golan's The Delta Force (1986). The three films, which will street on June 5th, will be available for purchase exclusively at Wal-Mart.

I think this thread is a great idea!!! Recently High Def Digest had an article complaining about exclusive bds because they aren't available to everyone and after a certain amount of time their prices skyrocket obscenely. One such title is Fright Night 1981. They also mentioned that As Good As It Gets is going to be released as an exclusive for Best Buy I believe. Some Walmart exclusives that I have seen:A Fish Called Wanda When Harry Met SallyThe Poseidon AdventureResident Evil Steelbook (all four movies)

I do find it a little bit unfair that some movie titles are becoming available as exclusives to one store. Just a heads up...As Good As It Gets is supposed to also be in limited release, meaning its price will go the way of Fright Night.